Massachusetts Girl Killed By Snow-Laden Branch

Associated Press
Published: February 6,2016

 A 6-year-old Massachusetts girl has died after being pinned by a large tree limb in her backyard during Winter Storm Lexi. 

According to Mass Live, the girl's parents told police that Kaleigh Kenyon was at her home in Canton, about 15 miles south of Boston Friday afternoon when the limb, apparently weighted down by the wet sticky snow, snapped and dropped some 35 feet to the ground.

Kaleigh Kenyon was killed by a falling branch Friday during Winter Storm Lexi.
(Courtesy of WBZ)

Kaleigh's father and brother were in the backyard with her. “‘Oh, my God is my sister OK?’ and I literally ran over there with my dad and we tried lifting the tree,” Kaleigh's brother Nicholas, told WSBK. He said it a lot of branches and it was very heavy.
Police say she had been freed by the time they arrived on the scene, and a neighbor was performing CPR.
Kaleigh was excited to be out playing in the snow Nicholas told WCVB.
"She was running out and was saying, 'Daddy, let's build a snowman,'" Nicholas said. "The next thing I know, a tree broke and fell on her. I just ran at (the tree) and tried to lift her out of there, and almost couldn't."
Her father screamed for help and a neighbor called 911.

Another Canton resident was hit by a fallen tree branch on Friday evening, WCVB reports. Thomas Gunning, 48, was hospitalized and police report he is in grave condition. 

Police are urging residents, and especially children, to stay indoors because of the danger from falling trees and tree limbs.
(MORE: Winter Storm Lexi Impacts)
Massachusetts officials say heavy, wet snow has been bringing down tree limbs and power lines across the region.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority reported that a section of the heavily-traveled Green Line between Boston and suburban Newton was shut down in both directions after a tree fell across the tracks.
Tens of thousands of people were without power in southern New England.
MORE: Winter Storm Lexi